1930s
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Richard NelsonDescription
A mock 1930's farce in which hilarity reigns supreme.
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (2 female, 7 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Tony KushnerDescription
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of ANGELS IN AMERICA comes this powerful portrayal of individual dissolution and resolution in the face of political catastrophe.
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (5 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 160 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Edwin SánchezDescription
A beautiful young girl who rises her parent's ballroom dancing act to film stardom. Inspired by the life of Rita Hayworth.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Louis PhillipsDescription
Set in the Midwest during the Depression, this play is about a twelve-year-old girl who works for Western Union, delivering messages both real and imaginary.
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (4 female, 6 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Lynne Alvarez, adapted from a story by Pam Muñoz RyanDescription
ESPERANZA RISING is the story of a young girl who is uprooted, transplanted, and re-grown in alien soil... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (6 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
María Irene FornésDescription
One of Off-Broadway’s best-loved plays, originally directed by the author. The audience follows the lives of eight women... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (8 female)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Ruth WolffDescription
Hallie Flanagan Davis headed the Federal Theater in the 1930s and 40s — until the anti-art element in Congress decided that federal support of what they saw as lazy left-wing artists must end... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Sally NemethDescription
An elegy for the lost souls in the dying plains of Kansas, 1936, who clung to their blighted homesteads like bees to a poisoned hive.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 60 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Peter ParnellDescription
In Hollywood in 1939, an actor/director named Julian Hyde is blackmailed by a gossip columnist known as Hollywood Confidential who threatens to reveal Hyde's homosexuality... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (3 female, 10 male, extras)
Full Length Drama (about 130 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Joseph ZettelmaierDescription
Los Angeles, 1933. PI Frank Ellery doesn't know it, but he's taken on the strangest case of his life... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (1 female, 4 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Lonnie Carter, with Loy Arcenas, based on the short story "The Romance of Magno Rubio" by Carlos Bulosan, additional dialogue in Filipino by Ralph B PeñaDescription
Set in the central valleys of California in the 1930s, the play focuses on Magno Rubio, an illiterate Filipino farm worker and his pen-pal courtship with Clarabelle, a white woman from Arkansas who advertises in the back pages of a "lonely hearts" magazine... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 80 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Lynne AlvarezDescription
While the dance world celebrated Vaslav Nijinsky's meteoric rise to fame in the early 1900s, few were privy to the private side of this creative genius... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Tom JacobsonDescription
On the night in 1939 when Count Basie is to be the first black performer at the Palomar Ballroom next door, a pair of Bimini Baths attendants are tasked with cleaning up a stranger fished out of the La Brea Tar Pits.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 60 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Naomi WallaceDescription
In Depression-era Alabama, black Sunday school teacher and Communist Party member Tice Hogan lives on the edge of trouble... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 115 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Scott Alan Evans and Jeffrey Couchman, based on the stories "Dancing Dan's Christmas" and "The Three Wise Guys" by Damon RunyonDescription
Christmas Eve, 1932. Three New York wise guys on the run from a hotheaded racketeer journey from a Manhattan speakeasy to a swanky Long Island mansion to a ramshackle barn in Pennsylvania, inadvertently spreading holiday cheer everywhere they go... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male, doubling or flexible casting, up to 4 females, 10 males)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes